And Antifoggant Or Color Stabilizer Patents (Class 430/551)
  • Patent number: 5104774
    Abstract: An image forming method comprising imagewise exposure and color development of a multilayer silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer containing at least one oil-soluble coupler which is capable of forming a substantially non-diffusible cyan dye upon coupling with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and which is represented by formula (I), and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (II) or (III) followed by the processing of the multilayer silver halide color photographic material with at least one of a bleaching solution and bleach-fixing solution each having a pH of not higher than 6.3, wherein formula (I), (II) and (III) comprise ##STR1## wherein Y represents --NHCO-- or --CONH--; R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Ohki, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 5104781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide color photographic light sensitive material having at least one silver halide color photographic light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support which comprises (i) at least one coupler represented by Formula (I), (ii) at least one compound represented by Formula (II), (iii) at least one compound represented by Formula (III), and (iv) at least one high boiling organic solvent represented by Formula (IV), wherein each of the couplers and the compounds represented by Formulas (I) to (IV) are incorporated in the same light sensitive layer, and wherein Formulas (I) to (IV) are shown below. ##STR1## The substituents are defined hereinbelow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5104779
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multifunctional back layer for a photographic element and to a coating composition for manufacturing the multifunctional layer which comprises at least four components: (a) a surface-hydroxylated aluminum-modified silica, (b) an alkali-metal salt of an organic polyacid, (c) an aqueous dispersion of copolymers of acrylic-acid-alkyl-ester including free carboxylic groups of from 1-10 mole-% and of free hydroxyl groups of from 5-20 mole-%, wherein the sum of free carboxylic groups and free hydroxy groups does not exceed 25 mole-%, and (d) a trifunctional aziridine as a cross-linking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Assignee: Felix Schoeller Jr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eckehard Saverin, Hans-Udo Tyrakowski
  • Patent number: 5098805
    Abstract: There is provided a color photograph improved in preservability that has been obtained by making chemically inactive the aromatic amine type color developing agents and their oxidized product that remains in the silver halide photographic materials after color development processing. The color photograph exhibits excellent performance in that its white background can be prevented from discoloring even during long-term storage or display, and deterioration of a dye image caused by the remaining color developing agent being taken into the photographic material after the color development, bleaching, and fixing processes, or due to its oxidized product, can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Furutachi, Osamu Takahashi, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5096805
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material containing at least one silver halide emulsion and at least one kind of 5-pyrazolone couplers having the releasable group shown by following formula (I) at the coupling position and at least one kind of the compounds shown by following formula (II): ##STR1## wherein L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 each represents a methylene group or an ethylene group; l and m each represents 0 or 1; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.2 represents a group bonded to A by a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom or a sulfur atom; A represents a carbon atom or a sulfur atom; n represents 1 when A is a carbon atom, or 1 or 2 when A is a sulfur atom; B represents a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, or a sulfur atom; and X represents an atomic group necessary for forming a ring; said R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may combine with each other to form a ring; and when B is a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, said B and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Aoki, Masakazu Morigaki
  • Patent number: 5093227
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color-developing agent. In the method a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a pyrazoloazole-type coupler and an image-dye stabilizer, and has at least one of the layers comprising a silver halide emulsion of a high silver chloride and the total coating amount of silver of 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or below is processed, after exposure to light, with a color developer containing a specified amount of chloride ions and bromide ions, to improve development treatment characteristics, desilvering ability, and stability of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Kazuaki Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5091294
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, which emulsion layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (T) and a yellow coupler represented by the following general formula (Y-I): ##STR1## (where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are each a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group or an alkoxycarbonyl group; X is a divalent group having a carbon atom as a constituent atom of the 6-membered ring; and n is 0, 1 or 2): ##STR2## (where R'.sub.1 is an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group; R'.sub.2 is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an acyl group or an aryl group; R'.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Masaki Tanji
  • Patent number: 5084375
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon a silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one each of cyan color image forming couplers represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## and at least one compound represented by the formulae (III) or (IV): ##STR2## wherein all the symbols are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Umemoto, Kozo Aoki
  • Patent number: 5084373
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive color photographic material improved on the sharpness and the graininess of images is disclosed. The photographic material of the invention comprises a support having thereon photographic component layers including a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, in which the photographic component layers have a total dry thickness of not more than 18 .mu.m , and at least one of the photographic component layers contains a coupler capable of releasing a scavenger which is capable of scavenging the oxidation product of a color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Watanabe, Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshihiko Kimura, Hidetaka Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 5082766
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a greensen-sitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains a coupound represented by the following formula T and a magenta coupler represented by the following formula M-I: ##STR1## in formula T, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group or an alkoxycarbonyl group; X is a divalent group including a carbon atom as the component of the 6-member ring of formula T; and n is an integer of zero, 1 or 2. In formula M-I, Z is a group of non-metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; Xs is a hydrogen atom or a splitting off substitutent; and R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 each is a hydrogen atom or a substituent provided that two or three groups represented by R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Masaki Tanji, Noboru Mizukura, Shuichi Sugita
  • Patent number: 5082764
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a base, which comprises in the silver halide emulsion layer a silver halide grains of high silver-chloride and an emulsified dispersion containing lipophilic fine particles that have a limited average particle diameter and include a cyan coupler represented by formula (I), a high-boiling organic solvent having a limited viscosity, and a diffusion-resistant compound represented by formula (II) or (III), and a method for forming an image by developing the said silver halide color photographic material. The disclosure as described provides a color photographic material and a method for forming an image being excellent in image quality and preservation property of cyano color image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5079137
    Abstract: A heat-developable color photographic light-sensitive material capable of giving positive color images having high maximum density, low minimum density, and less strain, comprising at least a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a dye-providing non-diffusible compound capable of releasing a diffusible dye on being reduced, and a reducing agent, wherein the light-sensitive material further contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I), (II), or (III); ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, with a proviso that R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a group having no redox activity after its cleavage and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Taguchi, Takayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 5079133
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is provided that contains at least one pyrazoloazole type coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represents ##STR2## or .tbd.N--, R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Mitsui, Takashi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 5077182
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer (BL) spectrally sensitized such that the specific spectral sensitivity range falls within the scope of from 400 nm to 520 nm, at least one magenta coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer (GL) spectrally sensitized such that the specific spectral sensitivity range falls within the scope of from 470 nm to 620 nm, and at least one cyan coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer (RL) spectrally sensitized such that the specific spectral sensitivity range falls within the scope of from 540 nm to 700 nm, wherein the center of gravity of the sensitivity wavelength of the GL's spectral sensitivity distribution (.lambda..sub.G) falls within the range of from about 520 nm to about 580 nm, the center of gravity of the sensitivity wavelength of the RL's spectral sensitivity distribution (.lambda..sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Sasaki, Keisuke Shiba
  • Patent number: 5071729
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide photographic material contains a compound having discoloration inhibitory activity represented by formula (I):PWR--Time).sub.t MCAP (I)wherein PWR represents a group capable of releasing (Time).sub.t -MCAP upon being reduced; Time represents a group which is released from PWR in the form of (Time).sub.t -MCAP and then releases MCAP through a subsequent reaction; t represents 0 or 1; and MCAP represents a group having discoloration inhibitory activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keizo Koya, Shigeru Ohno, Yoshisada Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5070007
    Abstract: Phenolic thiane derivatives of the formula I or II ##STR1## in which n is 0, 1 or 2 and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, R.sup.8, R.sup.9, R.sup.10, T and Z are as defined in claim 1, are effective stabilizers for color photography recording materials, in particular for the yellow layer. They act not only as light stabilizers but also as stabilizers against thermal oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventors: Jean Rody, David G. Leppard
  • Patent number: 5068172
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material wherein at least one coupler selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by the following general formulae (I) and (II), at least one compound represented by the following general formula (III) and at least one compound represented by the following general formula (IV) are included in the same layer, ##STR1## wherein the values of R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.10, R.sub.11, R.sub.12, A and X are defined in the specification. The photographic materials disclosed exhibit outstanding image storage stability, a decreased occurrence of stain in unexposed portions and a decreased occurrence of color fading by light in their magenta image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Seto, Masakazu Morigaki, Hideaki Naruse
  • Patent number: 5063148
    Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic material which is capable to form magenta dye image of substantially improved light-fastness and to form non-colored portion free from Y-stain is disclosed. The material comprises compounds represented by general formula M-I and II in the layers separately or together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Sugita, Noboru Mizukura, Junichi Kohno, Kenzi Kadokura, Atsushi Tomotake
  • Patent number: 5063135
    Abstract: A color diffusion transfer photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, said light-sensitive material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of polymers obtained by the condensation of at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (I) and at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (II) in the presence of an acid or alkaline catalyst; polymers obtained by the condensation of at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (I) and at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (III) in the presence of an acid catalyst; novolak resins obtained by the condensation of at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (I) and at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (IV) in the presence of an acid catalyst in a uniform organic solvent system while eliminating off water produced upon azeotropy; and polymers obtained by the condensation of at least one of compounds represented by the general formula (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Toriuchi, Hirokazu Kondo
  • Patent number: 5063139
    Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material capable of being processed at an ultrahigh speed, which comprises at least two light-sensitive layers on at least one side of a support wherein each layer contains a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a nondiffusive oil-soluble coupler capable of coupling with an oxidation proudct of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent to produce a dye, said light-sensitive layers having different sensitive wavelength ranges, said silver halide is silver chloride or silver chlorobromide containing at least 90 mol % of silver chloride, and the alkali-consuming amount of said light-sensitive material is not more than 2.6 mmol/m.sup.2.A process for the formation of color images using the light-sensitive material, which comprises imagewise exposing light-sensitive material, and then subjecting the material to color development for not more than 20 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 5059515
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula I or II ##STR1## in which R, R.sup.0, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are as defined in claim 1. The compounds, some of which are novel, are light stabilizers for color photographic recording materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventor: David G. Leppard
  • Patent number: 5057404
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed having blue-sensitive, green-sensitive, and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a support, wherein said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains a dispersion of fine oleophilic grains formed by dispersing by emulsification a mixture comprising a water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer and at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II), and the silver halide emulsion layer or non-light-sensitive layer of the material contains a dye represented by formula (III);wherein formula (I) is represented by ##STR1## wherein R.sub.11 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R.sub.12 represents an acylamino group or an alkyl group; R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group, or R.sub.12 and R.sub.13 are bonded together to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; Z.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kokichi Waki, Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 5057408
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein said layer contains a dispersion of fine oleophilic grains, which grains contain at least one nondiffusible oil-soluble cyan coupler capable of forming a substantially nondiffusible dye by coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and at least one coupler solvent which is immiscible with water and has no aromatic group in the molecule and which has a melting point of 100.degree. C. or lower and has a boiling point or decomposition point of 140.degree. C. or higher. As the characteristic feature of the invention, the dispersion of said fine oleophilic grains is formed by emulsifying and dispersing a mixture solution comprising at least one of the coupler, at least one of the coupler solvent and at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 5057402
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing surface latent image type silver halide grains on a support, wherein the emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion, in an amount of 50% by weight or more, which is a substantially silver iodide-free silver chlorobromide comprising silver chloride in an amount of 70 mol % or more (as a mean value) of the total silver halide constituting the silver halide grains, which has a silver bromide-localized phase with a silver bromide content of less than 70 mol % in the inside or on the surface of the grains, and which further contains ions on in the grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiba, Kazunori Hasebe, Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 5051349
    Abstract: A heat developable color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye providing compound capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye in correspondence or counter-correspondence to reduction of the silver halide to silver, said heat developable color photosensitive material further comprising a compound represented by formula (I):C.sub.6n (H.sub.2 O).sub.5n+1 (I)wherein n represents an integer of 1 or more. The material exhibits excellent raw preservability and provides a stain-free color image having a high maximum density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Taguchi, Hiroyuki Hirai
  • Patent number: 5049473
    Abstract: A method of preserving colored images formed by exposing imagewise a heat developable color photosensitive element which has a construction which includes, on a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a binder and a dye providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye in proportion, or in inverse proportion, to a reaction in which the silver halide is reduced to silver; thereafter or simultaneously heating said element to form a diffusible dye; and transferring the diffusible dye image to a dye fixing element, wherein the photosensitive element or the dye fixing element further comprises at least one of a compound of which the quenching rate constant for the excited triplet of arylazonaphthol yes is at least 1.times.10.sup.5 M.sup.-1 .multidot.sec.sup.-1 and a compound of which the quenching rate constant for singlet state oxygen is at least 1.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1 .multidot.sec.sup.-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Furuya, Satoru Sawada
  • Patent number: 5049482
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material improved in fastness to light of the color image formed thereon. The photographic material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye-forming coupler, a compound represented by the following Formula I, and a compound represented by the following Formula II: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a straight of branched chain alkenyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms or a straight of branched chain alkenyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms; and R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 each represents a straight or branched chain alkyl group having 4 to 8 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Masaki Tanji
  • Patent number: 5047316
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye forming coupler and a polymer latex, the polymer latex is derived from a monomer represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; L.sub.1 represents --CONH-- or ##STR2## p represents an integer of from 1 to 4; and q represents an integer of from 1 to 30.The silver halide color photographic material provides a cyan color image without accompanying decrease in color density even when it is processed with an exhausted bleaching or bleach-fixing solution or a bleach or bleach-fixing solution having an weak oxidizing power. Further, the cyan color image is prevented from the occurrence of stain due to irradiation to light for a long period of time after processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsumoru Hirano, Kiyoshi Nakajyo
  • Patent number: 5047314
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a cyan coupler-containing layer, a magenta coupler-containing layer and a yellow coupler-containing layer, wherein the cyan coupler-containing layer contains a dispersion of oleophilic fine particles which is obtained by emulsifying or dispersing a solution containing (a) at least one cyan coupler represented by the general formula (I) and/or (II) described below, (b) at least one compound represented by the general formula (III) described below and (c) at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble homopolymer or copolymer, ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.4 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, R.sub.3, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or an acylamino group, and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sakai, Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 5047315
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a photographic layer containing:a) at least one compound capable of chemically binding with an aromatic amine developing agent or its oxidation product, which remains after color development processing, to produce a chemically inert and substantially colorless compound andb) at least one of the compounds presented by the following Formulae (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein X and X' each represents a divalent to hexavalent polyvalent group; n and m each represents an integer of 2 to 6; R represents an aliphatic group; R' represents an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, provided that R or R' existing in the same molecule may be the same or different from each other; R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5047317
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the ratio of the total weight of potassium ion in the photographic light-sensitive material to the total weight of silver in the photographic light-sensitive material is 1.times.10.sup.-3 or less. The silver halide photosensitive material is improved in long-term storage stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Shibayama, Shunichi Aida, Toshio Aizu, Shunji Takada
  • Patent number: 5043255
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, with which a yellow coupler of the pivaloyl or benzoyl acetanilide type dissolved in a polymeric ester of aromatic or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids is associated, is distinguished by greater color purity and better dark-fading stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Agfa Aktiengesellschaft AG
    Inventors: Gunter Junkers, Klaus Wagner, Gerald Karich, Friedhelm Sommer
  • Patent number: 5043256
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing substantially no silver iodide and comprising silver chloride or silver chlorobromide grains having an average silver chloride content of not less than 10 mol % and containing at least 10.sup.-9 mol (per mol of silver halide) of Group VIII metal ion of the Periodic Table, Group II transition metal ion of the Periodic Table, lead ion or thallium ion provided on a reflection type support, said silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one member of pyrazoloazole couplers represented by the following general formula (I) and said silver halide color photographic material contains at least one member of compounds represented by the following general formulas (II) and (III) and at least one member of compounds represented by the following general formula (IV) ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 and X.sub.1 are defined in the specification; at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeaki Otani
  • Patent number: 5041365
    Abstract: The present invention provides silver halide color photographic materials having a layer which contains at least one magenta color image-forming oleophilic coupler of the following formulae (I) and/or (II) and at least one of the following formula (III): ##STR1## in which Ar represents a phenyl group which is substituted by at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group and a cyano group; Y represents an acylamino group or an anilino group; and Z.sub.1 represents a group capable of being removed by coupling, ##STR2## in which X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Z.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being removed by coupling;W represents a hydrogen atom, an acyl group or an aliphatic or aromatic sulfonyl group;Za and Zb each represent a methine group, a substituted methine group or --N.dbd.; andX, Z.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Hideaki Naruse, Masakazu Morigaki, Nobutaka Ohki, Nobuo Furutachi
  • Patent number: 5037730
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one type of cyan dye-forming coupler represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of difficulty water-soluble epoxy represented by formula (II) below: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having at least 7 carbon atoms, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group with 2 to 15 carbon atoms, L represents a simple linkage or a bivalent linking group, Z represents a hydrogen atom, or a group or atom which can be released at the time of the coupling with the developing agent, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aliphatic oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic oxycarbonyl group or a carbamoyl group, provided that R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are not all hydrogen atoms, and the total number of carbon atoms thereof is from 8 to 60, and in formula (II), a 5- to 7-membered ring may be formed with R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 or R.sub.3 and R.sub.5, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Aoki, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5035988
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described which contains at least one of yellow couplers represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one of compounds represented by the following general formula (A-I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted N-phenylcarbamoyl group; R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; X.sup.1 represents a group represented by the following formula (a), (b), (c) or (d): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, each is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a carboxylic acid ester group, an amino group, an alkyl group, an alkylthio group, an alkoxy group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, a carboxyl group, a sulfonic acid group or a salt thereof, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a heterocyclic ring, ##STR3## wherein W.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshisada Nakamura, Masakazu Morigaki, Yoshio Ishii, Kei Sakanoue
  • Patent number: 5028519
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed. The photosensitive material comprises a support and a photographic layer. According to the present invention, the photographic layer contains a heterocyclic compound. The heterocyclic compound is, for example, represented by the following formula [I]: ##STR1## in which n is 1, 2 or 3; and each of Ra and Rb independently is an acyl group, a sulfonyl group, a sulfinyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, a phosphoryl group, a sulfamoyl group or a carbamoyl group. The other heterocyclic compounds represented by the formulas [II], [III], [IV], [V], and [VI] are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Morigaki, Nobuo Seto
  • Patent number: 5028515
    Abstract: In a color print containing cyan, magenta and yellow colored dyes, the color print where the spectral absorption peak wave lengths of the respective colored dyes lie in the range represented by the following formula:1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c).gtoreq..lambda.m.gtoreq.1/2(.lambda.y+.lambda.c)-1 0.lambda.c=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored cyan dye.lambda.m=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored magenta dye.lambda.y=Spectral absorption peak wave length (nm) of the colored yellow dyeIn the color print, improvement of the color reproduction and improvement of the observation light source dependency, which hitherto tend to conflict with each other, can be attained at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Hasebe, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5026634
    Abstract: A color light sensitive material which provides a positive dye image having high density, good color reproducibility and which exhibits excellent preservability before use. The material comprises a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, a reducible dye donating compound, and at least one reducing agent selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by formula (IA) and a compound represented by formula (IB): ##STR1## wherein the substituents have the meanings indicated in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Ono, Hiroyuki Hirai, Nobutaka Ohki, Kouichi Hanaki, Koki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5026633
    Abstract: Photothermographic dry silver emulsions containing a benzylidene lenco dye and a development accelerator provide a high density yellow image upon exposure to actinic radiation and thermal developing at a relatively low temperature and for a short period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: David C. Weigel
  • Patent number: 5024928
    Abstract: A silver halide multilayer color reversal photographic material having improved color reproducibility comprises, in a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the combination of a monomethine cyanine spectral sensitizing dye and a thiazole quaternary salt having attached to a quaternary nitrogen atom thereof an alkenyl group having a double bond in the .beta.-position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Marco Loiacono, Giuseppe Loviglio
  • Patent number: 5024924
    Abstract: A method for continuously processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer with a color developing bath which contains at least one primary aromatic amine color developing agent, wherein at least one compound represented by formular (I) is present in said silver halide emulsion layer in an amount of from 3 to 10 mol % per mol of coupler in the layer in which the compound is added, and said silver halide color photographic material is processed with said color developing bath where the replenishment rate is from 20 ml to 200 ml per square meter of the silver halide color photographic material processed ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Naruse, Osamu Takahashi, Nobutaka Ohki, Michio Ono
  • Patent number: 5024925
    Abstract: A method of forming a color image which comprises subjecting a silver halide color reversal photographic material to imagewise exposure and then to color reversal processing, said color reversal photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer wherein the emulsion layers have an average silver iodide content of up to 5 mol %, and wherein the peak sensitivity of the red layer is in a range between 615 and 640 nm, wherein on the shorter wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 600 and 633 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 585 and 625 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 570 and 615 nm, and wherein on the longer wavelength side, 80% of the peak is in a range between 620 and 648 nm, 50% of the peak is in a range between 625 and 655 nm and 25% of the peak is in a range between 630 and 665 nm, wherein the wavelength difference between t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoyasu Deguchi
  • Patent number: 5023170
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein at least one of said emulsion layer contains light-sensitive silver halide grains having outer surfaces principally comprised of {100} face, and a magenta dye image forming coupler represented by Formula (I) shown below: ##STR1## wherein Z represents a group of nonmetal atom necessary for formation of a nitrogen-containing hetero ring; said ring formed by Z may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent eliminable by the reaction with an oxidant in a color developing agent; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent,which can provide a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having high sensitivity, being low in fogs, and having improved color reproducibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Miyoshi, Makoto Kajiwara, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 5021333
    Abstract: A photographic yellow dye-forming coupler is represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms;ball is a ballast group of such size and configuration as to render the coupler nondiffusible in a photographic element;Y is CO, PO.sub.3 or SO.sub.2 ;X is an aryloxy coupling-off group; andn is 1 or, when Y is PO.sub.3, n is 2.Such a coupler is useful in a color photographic silver halide element and process to provide improved activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Llewellyn J. Leyshon, Paul R. Buckland, Paul A. Burns
  • Patent number: 5021328
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon (i) at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer containing substantially silver iodide free silver halide with a silver chloride content of at least 90 Mol %, (ii) at least one coupler which forms a dye by means of a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a primary aromatic amine developing agent, and (iii) at least one light-insensitive layer containing at least one oil soluble anti-color mixing agent which reacts with the oxidized product of the developing agent, said light-insensitive layer containing at least one oil soluble and substantially non-diffusible anti-color mixing promotor selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formula (I) or general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein A represents a divalent electron attractive group, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5019493
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material that has at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a phenolic cyan coupler of the general formula (I) and an amine of the general formula (II). The maximum absorption of the dye formed in sufficiently shifted to a longer wavelength range of the spectrum to achieve satisfactory color reproduction. The dye image produced has a high maximum density and improved keeping quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sato, Shigeto Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 5017465
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, wherein at least one said silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 80 mol %, a magenta dye-forming coupler represented by Formula (M-I), and at least one compound in accordance with Formulas (A) and (B); ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoki Nishijima
  • Patent number: 5017464
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by General Formula [I]; ##STR1## (wherein Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring which may have a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a releasing group; and R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent), the silver halide emulsion layer containing the compound of Formula [I] further containinga metal complex having a quenching rate constant of singled oxygen more than 3.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1, sec.sup.-1, anda compound having the General Formula [a-1] or [a-2]; ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently an alkyl group; R.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoki Nishijima, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 5015563
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material suitably applicable to rapid processing with well-restrained fogging, color fading and degradation in the contrast is disclosed. The material comprises a reflective support and, provided thereon, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contains (1) silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion of which silver chloride content is not less than 90 mole % and said silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion has been prepared by the addition of a heterocyclic mercapto compound or an azaindene compound during the period of formation of silver halide grains contained therein, (2) a dye-forming coupler and (3) a high-boiling organic solvent of which dielectric constant is not more than 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Ohya, Yoshiyuki Nonaka